The Oscar winner has really shed weight since then, and surpassed all expectations.

In January, she told USA Today, “Instead of saying I lost this or that, I [say I] feel like I gained 10 years of my youth back. I look 10 years younger. People say to me, ‘You have Jennifer Hudson’s face. Are you her little sister?'”

Earlier this summer, she told told People Stylewatch: “I go into the store and they try to put me in 4s and 6s and I’m like, ‘Who are you trying to talk to?’ My mind hasn’t caught up yet … I didn’t expect to go as far as I did.”

Hudson’s second album, I Remember Me, is in stores now; her upcoming movie Winnie, a biopic about Nelson Mandela’s wife, hits theaters later this year.